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Biography

Zhang Chuhan, male, Han nationality, is a native of Meizhou, Guangdong Province. He graduated from Tsinghua University.

Zhang taught at Tsinghua University for most of his career. For much of his career, Zhang engaged in water conservancy engineering structure and antiseismic research. He studied irregular limitless domain simulation and advanced the time domain model of limitless border units and interactional arch dam - the ground-reservoir water motive force.

He also advanced the gravity dam earthquake rift and arch dam crack extension model by using the motive force border dimension method and principle of fracture mechanics and developed the model to unisotropic medium and nonlinear concrete material. He performed the validation of the model using a motive force rapture test and applied it in the antiseismic design of various concrete dams. He further put forth the time domain motive force border dimension and disperse dimension coupling model, and applied it in the distortion and stability prediction of large scale underground workshops and ship lock highwall in the Three Gorges.

He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Science in 2001.